We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
THOMAS MOREWhoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
More Thomas More Quotes
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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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Friendship demands attention.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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